Did the author of Where the Crawdads Sing write another book?

Delia Owens was a zoologist. While ‘Crawdads’ is her first novel, it is NOT her first book. She and her husband, Mark, co-authored three other memoir-type about their time in Africa: Cry of the Kalihari, 1992.

Is the book Where the Crawdads Sing based on a true story?

While there are several nods to Delia’s own life in her novel, it’s unlikely that Where the Crawdads Sing is based on a true story. However, Delia and her husband were connected to a real-life murder in 1995, where they were the primary suspects in the shooting of an alleged poacher in Zambia.